Mike McRae (baseball)

Mike McRae
Current position
TitleAssociate head coach/pitching coach
TeamRutgers Scarlet Knights
Biographical details
BornNiagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
Alma materColby College '91
Niagara University '93
Playing career
1988–1991Colby
Position(s)Pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1997Niagara (asst.)
1998Winthrop (asst.)
1999–2001Maine (asst.)
2002–2004Niagara
2005–2017Canisius
2018–2021VCU (asst.)
2022–2024William & Mary
2025–presentRutgers (associate HC/P)
Head coaching record
Overall590–496 (.543)
TournamentsNCAA: 0–2
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
4× MAAC Coach of the Year (2003, 2008, 2010, 2014)

Mike McRae is a Canadian college baseball coach who is the associate head coach and pitching coach for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. He was previously the head baseball coach at the College of William & Mary from 2022 to 2024. He was formerly an assistant coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and head coach of the Canisius Golden Griffins. McRae was Canisius's head coach from the start of the 2005 season to the end of the 2017 season. Under McRae in 2013, Canisius advanced to its first NCAA tournament.[1] Before becoming the head coach at Canisius, he was the head coach at Niagara from 2002–2004, and an assistant at several NCAA Division I programs from 1996–2001.

McRae attended Division III Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He played four seasons of baseball and one season of ice hockey for the Mules.[2]

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